NOT ACCORDING TO LABEL.
CHRISTCHRCH, June 8. The Lyttelton Licensing Committee recently requested that a test should be made of the liquor sold at the various hotels in the Lyttelton licensing district. As a result fines totalling £7O have been imposed on three licensees for exposing for sale whisky r.ot true to label. The following have been convicted and fined:- —Thomas Wilson (Grand Hotel Akaroa). £2O; George Henry Scott (Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton), £2O; Frank William Wright (Lake Forsyth Hotel, Little Rivsr), £3O. Wriglit was charged with exposing liquor not true to label in that, he put draught whisky into case whisky bottles. Ho pleaded guilty, and stated that it did not pay him to sel!_ case whisky at the present price of 9d a nip.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3613, 12 June 1923, Page 46
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125NOT ACCORDING TO LABEL. Otago Witness, Issue 3613, 12 June 1923, Page 46
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